Then I made the team and eventually became the captain.
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That confidence must have been apparent because I made the team.
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Iodence: I think, just his presence, he made the team stronger.
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Chad Beebe made the team during a tryout camp in May.
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Mattel was most likely happy that Douglas made the team, too.
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Ms. Kitchener had tried out days earlier and made the team.
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Clark impressed Walsh enough to get drafted and eventually made the team.
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I made the team and began practicing but still didn't feel right.
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Here's who made the team and which team they will play for.
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The first reason is the obvious: It made the team much better.
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He made the team, moved south and played well for a year.
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Skjei made the team but then started slowly and did not play much.
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And to have actually done it and made the team, it's just so incredible.
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Everyone who tried out for basketball made the team because there weren't enough players.
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Perhaps as significant a story as who made the team was who did not.
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Then, after we made the team, I definitely glammed it up even harder for games.
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That made the team experiment with different types of dough that would resemble a doughnut.
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Jeffrey Henderson, Jarrion Lawson and Will Claye made the team in the men's long jump.
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But then I kind of mucked it up for him because I made the team.
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When he made the team, he was offered several traditional options for the regular season.
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Baltimore manager Buck Showalter kidded with his charges when he broke the news to them: "The good news is that you made the team, the bad news is you made the team," he quipped in reference to the team's demanding travel schedule this month.
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That deal fell through, but Johnson still made the team—as a wide man in midfield.
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They were part of the reason Rooney, a goaltender, made the team in the first place.
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The switch to Daniel Jones made the team instantly relevant and has led to consecutive wins.
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Center Alex Mack, linebacker Vic Beasley and kicker Matt Bryant made the team for the Falcons.
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Harding, who had not yet been convicted of her role in the attack, also made the team.
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We certainly can't — which is why we're already tracking which canines made the team cut this year.
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Luis Cessa, who had a strong spring, also made the team and will have a fluid role.
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He made the team and became a G League All-Star while averaging 14.9 points a game.
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Last March, Napoleon Jinnies and Quinton Peron tried out for the Los Angeles Rams and made the team.
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Enya told the BBC that she had started planning the proposal when she learned Cerullo made the team.
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Neither Lee nor Reshad, the linebackers who joined Peters that morning in his ruined home, made the team.
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It was a small thing, but it made the team feel like more than another experiment in spring football.
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A new coach, Craig Parnham, came aboard the following year and made the team more fit and more formidable.
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Jets coach Adam Gase also responded to Bell's outing on Tuesday, agreeing that it made the team look bad.
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G/F Lance Stephenson made the team over Alonzo Gee even though Gee had a $1.2 million guaranteed contract.
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We made the team Sunday night, and we got an email to appear on Good Morning America on Tuesday morning.
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It created a special Gabby Douglas Barbie doll and unveiled it on Monday, a day after she made the team.
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But each woman who made the team had her own reasons to weep, and happiness was the basis for it.
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Russell Westbrook of the Thunder, Kawhi Leonard of the Spurs and Anthony Davis of the Pelicans also made the team.
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He then joined the Dolphins and made the team as a center in Don Shula's first season as Miami coach.
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Burawa, who has bounced around the Yankees and Braves organizations, made the team after he proved his mother was Jewish.
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Hazelbaker made the team in spring training after spending the first seven seasons of his professional career in the minor leagues.
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And the reason you made the team is because you met certain criteria and you deserve to be on the team.
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Peralta made the team, which led to his big problem: The team — the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings — was in Harlingen, Tex.
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"I made the team, but they wouldn't give me a job because I was Chinese," Kwong told The Globe and Mail.
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RHP Luis Perdomo, who made the team as a Rule 5 Draft player, had a rough outing in his major-league debut.
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Tom Shields, who finished second in the race, also made the team, as the top two finishers in each event automatically qualify.
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This year's fresh-faced foe is Thomas Pieters, a lanky, 24-year-old Belgian who made the team as a captain's pick.
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He'd been solid in Philadelphia and was coming off a big playoff year, and Keenan trusted him, so he made the team.
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Some progress has been made, the team noted, in using tumor markers to determine which precursor lesions are likely to become cancer.
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"That's why he made the team, because the history said there's going to be playing time here and at-bats here," Collins said.
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Previously, U.S. gymnasts had been evaluated largely in a vacuum, with only their finishes at the Olympic trials determining who made the team.
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Among the best sequences is when coach Shannon Miller is meeting with players to tell them whether or not they made the team.
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Heisey spent part of last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers and made the team out of spring training as a non-roster invite.
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Then, she said, the journalists told her that a friend of hers, Rami Anis, also a Syrian swimmer, had made the team as well.
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The association is headed by Yao Ming, a former Rockets player who made the team by far the most popular N.B.A. franchise in China.
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He has also made the team for the legendary Thanksgiving day Baldwin Bowl every year, so his athleticism even today is not in question.
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New York Knicks James Dolan has never made the team his number-one priority, much to the chagrin of the NBA team's exasperated fan base.
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Edelman came to the Patriots as a quarterback out of Kent State in 2009 but made the team as a receiver and a punt returner.
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The Sabres had taken him with the second pick in the 1987 supplemental draft, and he made the team out of training camp in 1989.
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San Francisco has been dealing with injuries to its defense and its offensive line that have made the team far less scary in recent weeks.
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"As soon as I made the team, I've always loved the symbol and always thought it would be cool to get a tattoo of," he said.
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Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor also made the team as a reserve, while Jorge Polanco of the Minnesota Twins was selected to start at that position.
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"Now that Mirai's made the team, we need to help her have a solid support system in place in PyeongChang," a statement on the page read.
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When Vernon Philander was selected in the World Cup semi-final last year, rumours swirled he had only made the team because he was classed as black.
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Thanks to Brown's help, Reddick made the team as a freshman walk-on in the fall of 2012, but he redshirted and didn't last the entire season.
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New American 60 metres hurdles record holder Sharika Nelvis and five other athletes whose performances are the best in the world this year also made the team.
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Belisle has allowed just one earned run in six innings over seven games after he made the team out of spring training as a non-roster invitee.
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But she says that right now all of the players and coaching staff are on board, and that it has made the team closer as a result.
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Kaepernick's contract with the 21ers was due to pay him $16.5 million for this season, according to ESPN, but was not guaranteed unless he made the team.
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Duke made the team, and while the 2004 tournament was a thrill, he realized that the training for it had been the real catalyst for changing his life.
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Here I was, finally in the game, starting on the JV squad, but I wanted to ride the Varsity bench just to say I made the team. Geez.
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But with that decision made, the team now faced a daunting task, though: how do you port the tens of millions of lines of SQL Server's code to Linux?
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Gothenburg Roller Derby had been planning to compete in a tournament called Coastal Chaos in Maine this June, but Trump's travel restrictions have made the team rethink those plans.
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They had an actual, real-life rivalry with the Colorado Avalanche along with a cavalcade of Hall of Famers that made the team Stanley Cup contenders for two decades.
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Defensive back Mike Hilton, who made the team off the practice squad, picked up eight tackles and even found a chance to drill Keenum on a well-designed blitz.
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He made the team out of spring training and struck out an outstanding 37.1 percent of all batters before being dealt to Tampa Bay just before the trade deadline.
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"To be perfectly honest, I'm pretty sure if I had made the team, I would have not left the sport with the desire necessary to start a business," he said.
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Miley (1-0) signed a minor league contract with the Brewers and made the team in spring training, only to see a groin injury delay the start of his season.
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They weren't doing anything, really, and the slow realization of how willing they were to waste anything but the owner's money made the team harder to countenance, let alone enjoy.
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ROTATION Because of a shoulder injury to the staff ace, Luis Severino, who is expected to return in May, Domingo German made the team as the likely fourth starting pitcher.
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In 2016, with a titanium rod running the length of his tibia, he won a time trial at the United States nationals and made the team for the Rio Olympics.
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Edelman came to the Patriots as a quarterback out of Kent State in 2009 but made the team as a receiver and a punt returner before developing into a key cog.
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Next is the second-year receiver Robby Anderson, who made the team last summer after being an undrafted free agent and finished with 42 catches for 587 yards and two scores.
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The 2016 team did not include several former gold medalists, including LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul, who would surely have made the team again had they chosen to play.
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An official at the U.S. Embassy in Gaborone, Botswana's capital, told me that the worldwide exodus of refugees, from Syria and elsewhere, had made the team a low priority for resettlement.
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The Mavs got another impressive offensive game from undrafted rookie Dorian Finney-Smith, who made the team because of his tenacious defense and has received a chance to play because of injuries.
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As the researchers told The Guardian that year, these results made the team think that some of a mother's forgetfulness could be due to the drastic schedule and life adjustments pregnancy creates.
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"I was only 19 years old when I made the team, and I don't think I was prepared psychologically for the responsibility with becoming an Olympic champion at that point in time," he said.
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"I definitely didn't expect the mixed emotions after I made the team," she said Saturday in an interview at the Northside Swim Center, where the team is training until its departure Thursday for Atlanta.
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Both men have already made the team, with Ervin still seeking an individual event to go with his relay duty and Adrian set to defend his 100-meter freestyle title from the London Games.
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Collegiate champion Clayton Murphy surged past Berian to punch his Rio ticket in 25:2000, 212 hundredths of a second faster than Berian who still made the team for Brazil along with Charles Jock.
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A competitive dancer in high school, she auditioned for the Phoenix Suns dance team in the fall of 2016 – and after trying out earlier in the year and not making it – finally made the team.
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A rumored trade for Washington offensive tackle Trent Williams could go a long way in helping Baker Mayfield find the magic that made the team such a sensation through the second half of last season.
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Cousins, who came to Golden State last summer amid great fanfare — and ample derision from people who thought his addition made the team even more unbeatable — has proved to be a significant liability on defense.
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The defeat may signal the beginning of the end for the celebrated Patriots partnership between Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, a combination that has made the team America's foremost sports dynasty of this century.
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"I am really happy to be feeling better and skiing like myself again," said Yater-Wallace, who made the team after overcoming a liver infection in 2015 during which he spent 10 days in an induced coma.
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Of those nine, seven of them (all but Jason Terry and Pablo Prigioni) had made at least one All-Star team at some point during their NBA career; five had made the team at least ten times.
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His mother had forbidden him to try out for his high school team, and when he did, and made the team, he kept it a secret from her — until the day he came home with an injury.
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And since the early emergence of Portis has made the Bulls' big man rotation even more strained, losing Joakim's body in the five-man logjam has made the team more cohesive and better able to realize Hoiberg's principles.
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" When asked what traits new wideout Brandin Cooks has that made the team willing to give up a first and third-round pick, Belichick replied that Cooks is a "good player" before adding "we'll see how it goes.
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Karim Benzema, a French striker of Algerian origin, charged that he was left out because the manager, Didier Deschamps, bowed to racist pressure (a claim undercut by the fact that half of those who made the team are black).
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Of course I am sorry that Yale beat us, but I am very glad you made the team and I am not merely glad but very proud that you should have played as you evidently did play in the game.
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Los Angeles will send DT Aaron Donald, PR/KR Pharoh Cooper and P Johnny Hecker to the Pro Bowl along with Gurley, although K Greg Zuerlein - who also made the team - is headed to IR with a back injury. 3.
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It would be hard to declare the move a dramatic success, with Stanton going 1 for 3 with an infield single and a walk, but no matter how the sausage was made, the team walked away with a 4-3 win.
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And every time, I tell myself, I would one hundred times rather be sitting in Omaha in 2020 having not made the team, knowing that I tried, rather than looking back on these past two years and always thinking, What if?
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Yawkey was still around, and maybe he still would have refused the African American players who had finally made the team a winner had the pressure—and a distinct lack of success in the years after 1947, not a coincidence—made it impossible.
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It is likely that Montgomery, who unexpectedly made the team as the No. 5 starter off a strong spring training, will be removed from the rotation to accommodate Gray, who joins Masahiro Tanaka, C. C. Sabathia, Severino and Garcia in the Yankees' revamped starting staff.
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Blanco this winter signed a minor league contract with a spring training invitation that included a $1 million salary if he made the team, but he restructured the deal after agreeing to report to the minors when the injury kept him from making the team.
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That led to swimming in local clubs — "I was hell on wheels in the 50-meter butterfly, but unfortunately you stop swimming that when you're 10" — and then later for the University of Southern California, where she made the team without being recruited — not an easy thing to do.
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New Jersey RW Jimmy Hayes, who made the team after attending training camp on a tryout basis, scored the game-winning goal on Saturday while 18-year-old C Nico Hischier, who was drafted first overall in June, registered six shots in 15 minutes, 44 seconds of ice time. 3.
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The No. 247 overall pick of the 23 draft posted an 23-4193 record along with a 2419 ERA in 28 combined turns at Double-A Hartford and Triple-A Albuquerque in 26 and went 17-12, 3.49 in 45 minor-league starts before discovering he made the team out of spring training over the weekend.
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